THEME EXPLORATION

inescapable fate

12 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964 · Jacques Demy
Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon
1975 · Stanley Kubrick
Past Lives
Past Lives
2023 · Celine Song
Blind Chance
Blind Chance
1987 · Krzysztof Kieślowski
Cat People
Cat People
1942 · Jacques Tourneur
Dust in the Wind
Dust in the Wind
1986 · Hou Hsiao-hsien
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
1998 · Guy Ritchie
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
1994 · Michael Haneke
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
1965 · Sergei Parajanov
Amores Perros
Amores Perros
2000 · Alejandro González Iñárritu
No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men
2007 · Joel Coen
The Man in Search of His Murderer
The Man in Search of His Murderer
1931 · Robert Siodmak
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
David Robert Mitchell USA

Mitchell crafts methodical horror tales where mundane worlds harbor creeping, inescapable dread.

 Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong

His visually poetic films like *In the Mood for Love* and *2046* depict characters unable to escape doomed love stories and the inexorable passage of time.